About Maricela
Maricela Nunez is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical strategies to help people manage anxiety and stress. She draws on 11 years of experience to offer clear, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by worry, low mood, or grief. She often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.
Her work also includes trauma-focused approaches when past distress continues to affect daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, practical steps that build coping skills over time. Maricela brings cultural context into the room. As a first-generation Latina she pays attention to how family history and culture shape beliefs and coping.
That perspective helps when people want to make sense of generational patterns or to find new ways of relating to themselves and others. She emphasizes strengths and collaboration. People are invited to name goals, try strategies between sessions, and track what helps.
The approach is straightforward: set a goal, practice a skill, and adjust as needed. Maricela offers therapy in English and Spanish from California. She supports people working through anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, social anxiety, shame and guilt, isolation, and forgiveness concerns.
Sessions are offered using formats that fit varied schedules and preferences.
How CBT and Mindfulness Fit into Online Therapy
CBT helps people identify patterns of thinking that increase anxiety and then test new, more balanced thoughts in everyday situations. Online sessions can include short exercises and between-session practice to change how worry shows up.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques translate well to video or phone sessions where people can try guided exercises in real time and report what they notice.
Trauma-focused approaches look at how past upsetting events continue to affect feelings and behavior today and then work on processing those experiences safely. In an online format this often means pacing work carefully and using grounding and coping skills between focused sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, and then adjust techniques over time based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still working toward concrete changes.
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- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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